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 * 15. How will the outcomes of your 2011 E-learning Innovations project be sustained? What specific flow-on delivery is planned in the second half of 2011 and beyond?**

The platform for Mahara will be made available to all APTS members. Information sharing sessions will be ongoing through APTS meetings and RTO networks. Learning Options and other RTOs are starting to require students to have a Mahara login to support their evidence gathering for RPL.


 * 16. What outputs (resources, case studies, learning objects etc) are you contributing back to the national e-learning infrastructure?**

The project will produce a collection of learnings for the RTOs on implmentation, and embedding of e-protfolios into their e-learning strategies, as well as How to Guides for students, trainers re accessing and using e-portfolios

One of the major challanges was trying to get Mahara up and running on other RTO servers. This is why Learning Options established a test platform and made this available to participating RTOs and their learners. This was a project that included RTOs and it has been difficult to engage some of the RTOs who commited to the project while at the same time others have been very supportive. Again it highlights a lack of knowledge and therefore a lack of implementation of e-learning technologies, it is "just too difficult".
 * 17. What challenges did you face/lessons did you learn in the course of the project?**
 * 18. What useful advice would you give to other VET practitioners who are thinking of embedding e-learning in their organisations?**

One of the major areas we would advise is the need to have a champion, somebody to drive e-learning. Many people are still not up to date with e-learning technology they are eager to implement e-learning but need some support and mentoring and a champion to explain issues to their organisation. Assessment strategies need to be specifically written to incorporate and enforce the use of technology.